Abstract: Face preference and attractiveness preference are two important preference phenomena in the newborns’ face recognition. Face preference means that newborns prefer face stimuli when presented face and nonface stimuli. Attractiveness preference means that newborns prefer attractive face when presented face stimuli. This paper introduces the overview of newborns’ face preference and attractiveness preference from behavior research and cause analysis, holds that to some extent, subject, object, and environment all contribute to newborns’ face recognition, and points out that future researches should go further at subjects, experimental materials and so on.

Key words: newborn, face recognition, face preference, attractiveness preference